Box-fastener.



PATEN'TED SEPT. 8, 1903.

E. SAMUEL.

BOX FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.16, 1902.

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Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ERNST SAMUEL, OF ELBERFELD, GERMANY.

BOX-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,490, datedSeptember 8, 1903.

Application filed September 15,1902. Serial No. 123,555. (No model.)

To ail whom it may concern.-

Be it known that'LERNST SAMUEL, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, anda resident of Elberfeld,Germany, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Box Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention comprises a new fastener for chests or boxes, especiallyfor cigar-boxes, which essentially consists in the use of a blunt pikefastened to the lid of the chest or box in combination with asheet-metal piece clasped over the upper edge of the front wall of thesaid box and perforated simultaneously with the said wall for receivingthe said pike,which latter is retained within said perforation byfriction only, thus closing the box in a simple and reliable manner.

For making my invention more clearly understood I will now proceed todescribe the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings,in which- Figure 1 shows a box with my improvement having the lidopened. Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate the pike and the sheet-metal pieceabove referred to on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 shows the arrangement ofparts when the lid of the box is closed.

In the construction of a box closing accord ing to my invention I use ablunt pike, as a, Fig. 1, which has its longer blunt end somewhatconically shaped and has a point at the other shorter end and a collar7) for limiting the inward motion of the said pike when the pointed endthereof is driven into the lid 0 of the box cl, as shown in Figs. 1 and4. When thus driven into the lid, the projecting end of the point isbent down and riveted into the wood, whereby the collar is also drawninto the wood, and the pike is firmly secured to the lid. This beingdone, a U-shaped sheetmetal piece e, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4, isplaced over the upper edge of the front wall of said casing, opposite tothe said pike in the lid, and the catches f, formed at the ends of saidpiece, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, are pressed into the wood for securingthe piece in position. Now the piece is pierced through for receivingthe pike a and the wood of the front wall is likewise bored out for thispurpose. Now it will be clear that the pike describes an are, asillustrated in Fig. 4 by dotted lines, when the lid is opened or closed.This motion is only possible by the spring action of the front wall,which latter yields to the pressure exerted thereupon by the depressionof the pike into the hole, and by such action the pike is firmly held byfriction when the lid is closed. Also it will be clear that thesplintering of the wood is prevented by the piece c.

Having now particularly described my invention, I claim-- 1. In afastener for boxes, the combination of a box, a lid linked thereto, ablunt conicallyshaped pike fastened to said lid,a sheet-metal piececlasped over the upper edge of the front wall of said box opposite tosaid pike and a pierced hole within said piece and front wall forreceiving said pike when the lid is closed, substantially as described.

2. In a fastener for boxes the combination with a box and a lid linkedthereto of a conically-shaped pike having its free end blunt and itsother end pointed for being driven into said lid, a collar on said pikefor limiting the inward motion thereof, a sheet-metal piece of U shapedform and having catches for being clasped over the front wall of saidbox opposite to said pike and a perforation within said piece and Wallfor receiving said pike, substantially as described.

ERNST SAMUEL. lVitnesses:

Or'ro Komo, J. A. RITTERHAUS.

